Beyond Low-Rank: Low-Rank Sparse Prompting via Spiking Neural Network and Prompt Factorization

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Auteurs principaux: Zhao, Yumiao, Jiang, Bo, Wang, Beibei, Wan, Xixi, Wang, Xiao, Tang, Jin
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author Zhao, Yumiao
Jiang, Bo
Wang, Beibei
Wan, Xixi
Wang, Xiao
Tang, Jin
author_facet Zhao, Yumiao
Jiang, Bo
Wang, Beibei
Wan, Xixi
Wang, Xiao
Tang, Jin
contents Visual Prompting (VP) has emerged as an efficient paradigm for adapting large-scale pre-trained vision models to downstream tasks by incorporating learnable prompts at the input level. However, existing VP methods typically employ dense pixel-level prompts, which often suffer from redundant perturbations, limited generalization and energy inefficiency. To overcome these limitations, we propose to integrate brain-inspired spiking learning into visual prompt learning tasks. As we know that spiking neuron can perform inexpensive information processing by transmitting the input data into discrete spike trains and return sparse outputs. Inspired by this, we propose \textbf{Lo}w-\textbf{R}ank visual \textbf{S}pike \textbf{P}rompting (LoRSP), a novel framework that learns dynamic low-rank sparse visual prompts naturally via a Spiking neuron learning mechanism. The core idea of LoRSP is to exploit the brain-inspired sparse firing mechanism of spiking neurons to generate pixel-level sparse prompt for each instance. To be specific, we first construct a series of prompt factors via low-rank factorization to capture distinct prompt subspaces. These prompt factors are then fed into an SNN architecture, which performs the integrate-and-fire process to emit spikes. As a result, our LoRSP generates a \emph{sparse} visual prompt while maintaining the low-rank constraint. This design enables instance-specific selective prompting, leading to more compact and robust adaptation across diverse downstream tasks. Extensive experiments on five heterogeneous vision backbones and multiple benchmarks demonstrate that LoRSP achieves competitive performance while requiring fewer tunable parameters compared to existing VP methods.
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spellingShingle Beyond Low-Rank: Low-Rank Sparse Prompting via Spiking Neural Network and Prompt Factorization
Zhao, Yumiao
Jiang, Bo
Wang, Beibei
Wan, Xixi
Wang, Xiao
Tang, Jin
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Visual Prompting (VP) has emerged as an efficient paradigm for adapting large-scale pre-trained vision models to downstream tasks by incorporating learnable prompts at the input level. However, existing VP methods typically employ dense pixel-level prompts, which often suffer from redundant perturbations, limited generalization and energy inefficiency. To overcome these limitations, we propose to integrate brain-inspired spiking learning into visual prompt learning tasks. As we know that spiking neuron can perform inexpensive information processing by transmitting the input data into discrete spike trains and return sparse outputs. Inspired by this, we propose \textbf{Lo}w-\textbf{R}ank visual \textbf{S}pike \textbf{P}rompting (LoRSP), a novel framework that learns dynamic low-rank sparse visual prompts naturally via a Spiking neuron learning mechanism. The core idea of LoRSP is to exploit the brain-inspired sparse firing mechanism of spiking neurons to generate pixel-level sparse prompt for each instance. To be specific, we first construct a series of prompt factors via low-rank factorization to capture distinct prompt subspaces. These prompt factors are then fed into an SNN architecture, which performs the integrate-and-fire process to emit spikes. As a result, our LoRSP generates a \emph{sparse} visual prompt while maintaining the low-rank constraint. This design enables instance-specific selective prompting, leading to more compact and robust adaptation across diverse downstream tasks. Extensive experiments on five heterogeneous vision backbones and multiple benchmarks demonstrate that LoRSP achieves competitive performance while requiring fewer tunable parameters compared to existing VP methods.
title Beyond Low-Rank: Low-Rank Sparse Prompting via Spiking Neural Network and Prompt Factorization
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.01945